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| SUV driver in deadly Florida day care crash arrested, charged with leaving accident scene Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 03:51 PM PDT WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — SUV driver in deadly Florida day care crash arrested, charged with leaving accident scene. Full Story | Top |
| NC man sentenced to jail for sucking woman's toes Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 12:53 PM PDT LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who sucked an unwilling woman's toes inside a Wal-Mart has been sentenced to 60 days in jail. Full Story | Top |
| Ohioans To Stop Executions Applauds Death Penalty Task Force, Launches Searchable Database of Recommendations Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 12:02 PM PDT COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Ohio Supreme Court Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio's Death Penalty meets today to finalize its recommendations. Concurrently, Ohioans to Stop Executions launched a new tool on its web page. This new tool will allow Ohioans to search, sort, and understand the more than 50 recommendations intended to help make Ohio's death penalty more fair. "Today the Task Force is completing its work by releasing a report with 56 recommendations that attempt to address the failures of Ohio's death penalty system," said Kevin Werner, executive director of the statewide anti-death penalty coalition. Full Story | Top |
| Suspended Canadian senator arrested for alleged assault Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 11:52 AM PDT  A suspended Canadian senator was arrested for alleged assault Thursday, a day before he was to appear in court on unrelated accusations of sexually assaulting his former girlfriend. Patrick Brazeau, 39, was taken into custody in the early morning at an Ottawa area residence, and charged with assault, cocaine possession and uttering threats. A police spokesman said officers responding to a disturbance complaint witnessed "an altercation between a man and a woman just in front of the house." Full Story | Top |
| Orthodox Jews arrested in Israel anti-conscription protest Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 11:39 AM PDT  Israeli police arrested five ultra-Orthodox Jews who threw stones at them during a Jerusalem protest Thursday against a new law making men in their community subject to compulsory national service. "Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in (the ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of) Mea Sharim, stopped traffic and threw stones and bottles at police," Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, adding that five of them were arrested. The demonstration came a month after parliament adopted a law that will compel ultra-Orthodox Jews to either serve in the military or perform civilian service. Last year, the cabinet agreed to end a practice under which tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men were exempted from military service if they were in full-time study at a yeshiva (Jewish seminary). Full Story | Top |
| Teen charged with hate crime in beating of driver Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 11:07 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit teenager was charged Thursday with assault and a hate crime in the brutal mob beating of a suburban motorist who stopped to help a boy he accidentally struck with his pickup truck. Full Story | Top |
| FBI adds 'Family Annihilator' to 10 most wanted list decades after crime Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 10:32 AM PDT The FBI added a man known as the "Family Annihilator" to its top 10 most wanted list on Thursday, nearly four decades after the brutal murders of his wife, mother and three sons in Maryland. The former U.S. Department of State employee, William Bradford Bishop Jr., has been on the run since 1976 and could be hiding in plain sight, the FBI said. "When Bishop took off in 1976, there was no social media, no 24-hour news cycle," Steve Vogt, special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore Division, said in a statement. He was last seen at a Jacksonville, North Carolina, sporting goods store, where he bought a pair of sneakers, the FBI said. Full Story | Top |
| Woman mugged on Brazil TV while discussing crime Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 09:07 AM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian TV is showing footage of a woman being robbed while being interviewed on television about crime near Rio de Janeiro's main train station. Full Story | Top |
| UK lawmaker acquitted of rape, sex assault charges Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 08:33 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The former deputy speaker of Britain's House of Commons was cleared of rape and sexual assault on Thursday after a trial that threatened to end a high-flying political career. Full Story | Top |
| Pope says 'enough' to human trafficking, calls it crime against humanity Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 06:34 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said "enough" to human trafficking on Thursday, denouncing it as a crime against humanity as police leaders and religious groups from around the world pledged to work together to combat it. Francis addressed the final session of a two-day Vatican-sponsored international conference on human trafficking attended by top law enforcement officials, politicians and representatives of religions. "Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity," he said. Full Story | Top |
| Dozens arrested in credit card fraud crackdown Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 04:51 AM PDT THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Law enforcement authorities have arrested 70 people at airports around the world in a meticulously coordinated crackdown targeting criminals using fake or stolen credit cards to buy airline tickets. Full Story | Top |
| SAC Capital to be sentenced in $1.8B fraud deal Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 03:28 AM PDT A New York judge is set to sentence Connecticut-based SAC Capital on Thursday after it pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges in a $1.8 billion deal with the government. Judge Laura Taylor Swain will ... Full Story | Top |
| Crime king Jo Nesboe's tale of revenge has echoes of his own father Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 02:28 AM PDT  By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - Jo Nesboe, one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers, explores revenge and father-son dramas in his latest thriller "The Son", which tracks his own story of learning his father had fought with Hitler's army. Together with Sweden's Stieg Larsson and fellow Norwegian Karin Fossum, Nesboe is one of the biggest stars of the Nordic Noir genre that has enthralled legions of international readers by exploring the darker side of these prosperous societies. Full Story | Top |
| Argentina hit by strike over inflation, crime Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 11:50 PM PDT  A strike against the policies of Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner halted trains and buses on Thursday amid growing public discontent over high inflation and crime. In Buenos Aires and its suburbs, long lines of commuters formed as workers left earlier than usual on Wednesday to try to get home. Kirchner's center-left government is being blamed for an annual inflation rate of over 30 percent. We have arranged to get to work (Thursday) in a taxi," said Diana Gonzalez, 26, who works in a pharmacy in Buenos Aires. Full Story | Top |
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